enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Longhouses of the Indigenous peoples of North America

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longhouses_of_the...

    Later day Iroquois longhouse (c.1885) 50–60 people Interior of a longhouse with Chief Powhatan (detail of John Smith map, 1612) Longhouses were a style of residential dwelling built by Native American and First Nations peoples in various parts of North America. Sometimes separate longhouses were built for community meetings.

  3. Longhouse - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longhouse

    In North America two groups of longhouses emerged: the Native American/First Nations longhouse of the tribes usually connected with the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) in the northeast, and a similarly shaped structure which arose independently among the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast.

  4. Celilo Village, Oregon - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celilo_Village,_Oregon

    Location of Celilo Village Modern Native American Longhouse in Celilo Village with the Columbia River and Oregon Trunk Rail Bridge in the background Native Americans drying salmon at Celilo Falls, circa 1900. Celilo Village, Oregon is an unincorporated Native American community on the Columbia River in northeastern Wasco County in the U.S ...

  5. Indigenous architecture in the United States - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_architecture_in...

    The Native American Student Center at Oregon State University is another example of contemporary longhouse construction, with its design symbolizing the close-knit community aspects of longhouse living. While modern longhouses often serve as spaces for large groups, they are also built on a smaller scale.

  6. Iroquois - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroquois

    ' people who are building the longhouse ') are an Iroquoian-speaking confederacy of Native Americans and First Nations peoples in northeast North America. They were known by the French during the colonial years as the Iroquois League , and later as the Iroquois Confederacy , while the English simply called them the "Five Nations".

  7. List of federally recognized tribes in the contiguous United ...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federally...

    Federally recognized tribes are those Native American tribes recognized by the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs as holding a government-to-government relationship with the US federal government. [4] For Alaska Native tribes, see list of Alaska Native tribal entities.

  8. A Native American photographer took powerful portraits of ...

    www.aol.com/native-american-photographer-took...

    Matika Wilbur photographed members of every federally recognized Native American tribe. She named the series Project 562 for the number of recognized tribes at the time.

  9. Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_the...

    Joseph Brant, a Mohawk, depicted in a portrait by Charles Bird King, circa 1835 Three Lenape people, depicted in a painting by George Catlin in the 1860s. Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands include Native American tribes and First Nation bands residing in or originating from a cultural area encompassing the northeastern and Midwest United States and southeastern Canada. [1]